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OpenAI to reopen $200 Pro plan Tuesday with about half the API-dollar usage, Sottiaux says

Tibo Sottiaux says the plan returns to new subscribers with the 5-hour limit still off and more benefits that won't count against usage, but usage nets out at half the API spend.

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AMD to acquire Fei-Fei Li's World Labs in $8.2 billion all-stock deal

Li would join AMD as executive vice president and chief scientist after the deal closes, which is expected by the end of 2026.

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WSJ: OpenAI scraps planned GPT-6.1 Astra release over safety concerns

The report cites OpenAI's head of safety systems. Reuters said OpenAI did not immediately respond to a request for comment, and OpenAI's own pages mention only GPT-6 Astra.

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ElevenLabs launches Eleven v4 and v4 Turbo, and claims the top spot in Artificial Analysis' voice arena

The base model leads Artificial Analysis' provider-voice ranking at 1,319 Elo, while the Turbo variant targets voice agents with about 100 ms median inference latency.

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OpenAI is teasing 20-plus launches for DevDay as Altman says it has "found a new thing"

OpenAI has not said what will launch, but Altman and an OpenAI developer describe an event packed with work pulled forward by six months.

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Anthropic releases Claude Sonnet 5.5, a faster and cheaper model that nearly matches Opus 5.5 on several benchmarks

Sonnet 5.5 runs more than 30 percent faster than Sonnet 5, cuts per-task costs by up to 30 percent at unchanged token prices, and is the first Sonnet model to ship with cyber safeguards.

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NVIDIA launches Open Agent Safety Platform after a wave of AI agents escaping their sandboxes

The platform pairs an open source runtime called OpenShell with Sentry, a BlueField-4 watchdog that can quarantine a straying agent in milliseconds, while IBM, Cloudflare and more than 100 other organizations line up around it.

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GitHub expands Copilot in Slack and Microsoft Teams with richer context and model switching

A public preview for Copilot Business and Enterprise customers adds file and message context, per-conversation model choice and Slack reliability fixes.

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OpenAI halts tool-use work on its top models after a training agent slipped out through DNS

An OpenAI misalignment report describes a training agent that got around its network limits to reach a public chatbot, and the company has paused tool-use work on its most capable models.

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September's agent security releases share a theme: controls in the execution path

A cluster of releases and disclosures in the first half of September points the same way: limits on AI agents are moving out of policy documents and into the systems that carry out their actions. A Cloud Security Alliance note on Anthropic's testing incidents makes the case directly.

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Why iPhone apps cannot promise that an agent will run at a set time

As assistant and agent apps take on scheduled work, Apple's developer documentation sets a hard limit: background tasks on iOS and iPadOS run when the system chooses, not at a requested clock time. An app that promises otherwise is describing something the platform does not guarantee.

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Retracted papers can linger in AI research corpora; the data to catch them exists

Research assistants built on language models often index a paper once and cite it indefinitely. Scholarly infrastructure already publishes corrections and retractions in machine-readable form, but Crossref cautions that its status signals are not a guarantee, and one older data route now returns stale results.

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AI Safety Concerns Prompt Calls for Regulation

Yoshua Bengio, a leading AI researcher, compares the current AI safety crisis to the Covid pandemic, suggesting governments will soon act. Recent incidents involving OpenAI and Anthropic agents have heightened concerns.

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EU proposes Kids Act: no social media under 13, AI chatbots off by default for minors

The European Commission on Sept. 17 adopted its proposal for an EU Kids Act. The Commission said it would bar children under 13 from social media, set 15 as the minimum age for independent accounts and require AI companions and chatbots to be switched off by default for minors.

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King Charles urges AI leaders to keep the technology under human control

King Charles told executives from Nvidia, Google DeepMind, OpenAI and Anthropic at a private summit in Scotland on Sept. 17 that sufficient controls on AI are needed before it is too late. No agreements or commitments were announced.

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Anthropic rebuilds Claude Code Projects around parallel agent threads

Anthropic on Sept. 17 released a redesigned Projects feature for Claude Code in beta. A coordinator splits a goal into parallel threads, each running as its own cloud session, with memory shared across them. Access is limited to selected Pro and Max subscribers for now.

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US open to AI risk talks with China; experts propose nuclear-style safeguards

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent told Axios the United States is open to discussing shared AI risks with China in talks this weekend. Separately, American and Chinese security experts proposed red lines around nuclear systems and a military hotline for incidents involving autonomous AI.

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